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Annabeth gish sons of anarchy1/31/2024 ![]() ![]() When has Unser’s help ever been good for anyone on this show?ģ. Fortunately for Juice, Unser seems to want to help him. Meanwhile, Juice couldn’t bring himself to skip town because Juice is an goddamn idiot. Gemma is also concerned that Unser will eventually make that connection. Unser knows where Juice is and that SAMCRO wants Juice dead, but he doesn’t suspect that Juice - or Gemma - is behind the death of Tara. Unser will be assisting in that investigation. Sheriff Jarry (Annabeth Gish) will be investigating the death of Tara. What is for certain, however, is that Jury - who spotted the gun and connected it to Jax - knows that Charming’s SAMCRO is behind those deaths, which opens up an entirely new can of worms going forward.ģ. It’s not confusing in the sense that we know why Jax needed to shift the blame away from SAMCRO and toward someone else to keep the heat from Lin (and Marks) off of them, but it is confusing as to why they chose people who were helpful (Gibby and Renny) and who are associated with allies (the Indian Hills SAMCRO), of which their close friend Jury is the President (so close, in fact, that Jax used to call Jury - one of JT’s best friends - his “uncle.”) Why would Bobby and Chibs even go along with this? Why are they killing, essentially, they’re own people? I understand the need to shift blame, but why shift it onto a couple of pot-smoking allies? Because they’re easy foils? Does Jax have a beef with Jury that I’m missing? For reasons I don’t quite understand, part of that plan was pinning the blame for the Lin deaths on two guys working for Jury and the Indian Hills chapter of SAMCRO. Step one of this plan involved disrupting a heroin-for-guns deal and killing a lot of Lin’s men.Ģ. He plans to completely dismantle the organization and then - once Henry Lin reaches out to Jax for help - Jax is going to kill everyone Henry Lin loves right in front of him. Jax still believes the Lin Triad is behind the death of Tara. ![]() You could boil last night’s episode down to a few simple plot points:ġ. But I don’t really need to see yet another character tell Jax that they’re sorry about Tara, that they’re there for him, and that they’ll give him whatever he needs knowing full well that Jax is about to turn on them. I could watch Tig and Ratboy sit in a car and f*ck with each other for hours. If those empty scenes were more entertaining - like, say, Ratboy and Tig’s exchanges - it’d be perfectly justified. More times than not, we didn’t need the explanation. There were a lot of pow-wows, too, where Jax would meet up with other characters, explain what they’re about to do, and then do it. There was a lot of fat in ‘Toil and Till.’ The entire subplot with Abel’s preschool, for instance, or the car trip between Nero and Wendy, and the cringeworthy conversation that Gemma had with Abel about his mother’s death. It just reminds us of where the characters are, and it’s one thing that Vince Gilligan almost never did: Catch us up. This does nothing to push the story forward. The opening sequence is the perfect example of Sutter’s excesses: Even after nearly 90 seconds of “previously on” scenes, there’s a lengthy establishing sequence in which we watch several characters smoking cigarettes. It was also about ten (or 15) minutes too long. Last night’s episode, “Toil and Till,” was one of the less egregious instances of this, but even still, it was 53 minutes of airtime, or about 10 minutes more than the average cable drama. The result is a lot of unnecessary material. There’s probably a few things going on here: Kurt Sutter - buoyed by the massive success of Sons of Anarchy - has caught the Peter Jackson disease (ego!), and FX - encouraged by the massive ratings of Sons - has decided to let him have an extra 15 or 20 or 30 minutes each episode because it means more commercial breaks, which means more money, which means FX is can spend more on Sutter’s next series for the network. The final season of Sons of Anarchy - like much of the past few seasons of the series - has not been efficient. Not only was Breaking Bad one of the best final seasons ever, it was one of the most efficient. Those episodes weren’t super-sized, either, until the final two, which each ran over by a mere 15 minutes. ![]() Every single frame, every single decision, and every word of dialogue mattered. Vince Gilligan had edited those episodes down to the bone. When we arrived at the final season of Breaking Bad - whether it was the final 16-episode full season, or the final eight episodes in 2013 - it felt like a final season.
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